List of natural monuments in the Altenburger Land district

In the list of natural monuments in the Altenburger Land district , the 19 natural monuments in the area of the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia are listed.

Natural monuments

No.	designation	Botanical name	location	District	description	image
	Münsaer Linden		50 ° 59 ′ 1 ″  N , 12 ° 27 ′ 48.6 ″  E	Altenburg	Old linden trees with a trunk circumference of over 150 centimeters along Münsaer Straße.	Image wanted
	Leipzig linden trees		50 ° 59 ′ 32.6 "  N , 12 ° 26 ′ 43.8"  E	Altenburg	Old linden trees with a trunk circumference of over 150 centimeters along Leipziger Strasse.	Image wanted
	Geraer Linden		50 ° 58 ′ 55.6 "  N , 12 ° 24 ′ 45.7"  E	Altenburg	Old linden trees with a trunk circumference of over 150 centimeters along Geraer Straße.	Image wanted
	1000 year old oak	Quercus robur	50 ° 52 '25.6 "  N , 12 ° 16'53.1"  E	Nöbdenitz	The tree is considered to be the second oldest oak in the world.	more pictures
	Oak on the bird spruce		50 ° 52 '3.4 "  N , 12 ° 17" 24.4 "  E	Nöbdenitz	In the 19th century the von Thümmel family was buried in the forest of the Raudenitz mountain south of the Nöbdenitz castle. Their ancestor Hans Wilhelm von Thümmel bought the so-called "grave oak" for himself in the village of Nöbdenitz, where he was also buried. The mausoleum was (presumably) destroyed after the Second World War.	Image wanted
	Peace Oak (from 1871)		50 ° 53 '43.4 "  N , 12 ° 20' 28.3"  E	Schmoelln	The Peace Oak is a memorial tree and commemorates the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71.	Image wanted
	Linde at the W. Kluge gymnasium		50 ° 53 '52.8 "  N , 12 ° 20' 51.7"  E	Schmoelln		Image wanted
	War oaks in grief		50 ° 52 ′ 6.6 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 16.3"  E	Grief		more pictures
	"The Höhgiebel"		50 ° 56 '3.8 "  N , 12 ° 15' 24.1"  E	Small exchange
	Black pine in Mohlis		50 ° 55 '12 "  N , 12 ° 17' 58.6"  E	Mohlis		Image wanted
	Larch on Heerstrasse		50 ° 54 ′ 21.2 "  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 20.5"  E	Drugs	Larch in the southern parish corridor "An der Heerstraße" - today a connecting path between the towns of Nödenitz and Wildenbörten.	Image wanted
	Kastanienbaum Kornhausstrasse	The Dobitschen train stop with beer garden was built at the former grain store, which was used as a regional grain warehouse in the 19th century.	50 ° 57 '45.7 "  N , 12 ° 16'23.5"  O	Dobitschen		Image wanted
	Linden tree from 1736 at the cemetery		50 ° 56 '58.2 "  N , 12 ° 19' 3.7"  E	Göllnitz		Image wanted
	5 English oaks		51 ° 0 ′ 2.2 "  N , 12 ° 28 ′ 26.5"  E	Remsa		Image wanted
	Village oak		50 ° 54 '43.6 "  N , 12 ° 30' 26.3"  E	Tautenhain
	Wolfenholz sandstone quarry		51 ° 0 ′ 0 "  N , 12 ° 26 ′ 57.8"  E	Altenburg	Immediately on Leipziger Strasse, in the north of Altenburg, sandstone has been quarried for building materials since the Middle Ages. The abandoned quarry was reforested.	Image wanted
	Tuber stones		50 ° 57 '29.9 "  N , 12 ° 23" 19 "  E	Schlöpitz	Tertiary brown coal quartzites in the river bed of the Blue Tide .	Image wanted

Area natural monuments

A total of 32 area natural monuments have been identified in the Altenburger Land district.

No.	designation	Botanical name	location	District	description	image
	Fairy tale lake		50 ° 59 '7.4 "  N , 12 ° 34" 0.1 "  E	Langenleuba-Niederhain	water-filled former quarry in the Leinawald	more pictures
	The Drosener rubble pits
	Paditzer Schanzen		50 ° 57 ′ 48.2 "  N , 12 ° 27 ′ 41"  E	Paditz		more pictures
	Pleißelauf			Celery - Kotteritz
	The course of the Pleiße river			Remsa Windischleuba and Saara-Kotteritz
	Gerstenbachaue
	Enlightened			Heyersdorf
	The Nörditzer Heide

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Altenburger Land district
• List of cultural monuments in the Altenburger Land district

Web links

Commons : Natural monuments in the Altenburger Land district  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• TLUG home page - Map services of the Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology
• Thuringian Environmental Portal Map service of the Thuringian Environmental Portal

Supporting documents and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} natural monuments. www.altenburgerland.de, accessed on May 16, 2016 .  
2. ↑ Note: The list is still incomplete
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p} Antje Gallert: Trees steeped in history examined carefully . www.altenburgerland.de, August 5, 2008, accessed on May 16, 2016 .  

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